Bruce Springsteen stands in front of the "Jenny," a shut-down steel furnace in Youngstown, Ohio, on Jan. 13, 1996. For many of the machinists, miners and laborers who embody Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics from the Rust Belt to the Appalachian coal fields, Donald Trump's swagger offers a long-denied bid for redemption. Springsteen's 1995 song “Youngstown,” a poetic elegy in a vast working-class canon, is still revered here in the city that inspired itBut while Springsteen's politics may have stayed liberal since he played Youngstown's Stambaugh Auditorium two decades ago, economic decline, foreign competition, crime and abandoned mills have turned many here — notably blue-collar white men — toward the right-wing, isolationist politics of a billionaire reality-TV show star.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 27, 2016 10:01 UTC